I've never listened much to NPR. Not that there's nothing good on there, just not enough to sit through all the programming I don't like. Enter NPR One. I was reading an article about the app, which purports to do for talk what Pandora does for music. I downloaded it and tried it immediately. It's a very, very good app.
The clean interface looks like something Apple would have dreamed up. Lots of white space on the screen with a tab for "Now Playing", "History" and "Coming up". You can skip segments you don't like and mark "interesting" (instead of "like") those you do. It determines the listener's local station and gives the opportunity to change stations if you prefer.
Each segment displays its length and how much time is left.
I predict similar apps for any company broadcasting talk programming. I see it as fitting into short attention spans and the desire for on-demand programming.
The clean interface looks like something Apple would have dreamed up. Lots of white space on the screen with a tab for "Now Playing", "History" and "Coming up". You can skip segments you don't like and mark "interesting" (instead of "like") those you do. It determines the listener's local station and gives the opportunity to change stations if you prefer.
Each segment displays its length and how much time is left.
I predict similar apps for any company broadcasting talk programming. I see it as fitting into short attention spans and the desire for on-demand programming.